This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … identify causal effects, we leverage time-series and cross-sectional variation in crime register data, comparing the number of … holidays. Our main finding shows that violent crime increases by 21.5 percent on a match day. In total, professional football …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …

, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess mortality and a …

The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of … criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using … different estimation methods for panel data. The results show how the correlation between organized crime is both negative and …

This paper examines the impact of tax evasion on criminal activities in Italy. Precisely, we consider three types of … crime particularly related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robberies, thefts and car thefts), frauds …

criminal activities. The paper develops a new approach to measure money laundering and then proposes an application to Italy, a …